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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JULY 10, 1930,

WILL ROBERTSON OF GERMANY

BE THE NEXT C.I.G.S.?

1

At a party in Berlin I com- forence with his own advisers he, cal details made him plimented a pretty Russian listens

careful attention, successful business man. girl on her new

grasps facts quickly, and has frock-a

What next? great political sense. In all our sure way of becoming friends if you don't suggest the dress is a Paris model.

"Thank you,"

she said. "Toll. me, do all important Englishmen look like your General Robert- Fon?".

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As I looked round the

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were proud

By Kenneth Hare-Scott

a

a highly

Silencing

radio Moscow

x

desert The new station will be in

Good Morning

No, Myrtle, they aren't giving concerts at Wimbledon, even if you did think you heard that Patti hus been a great success there.

There's a kelch la this.

round

"Rainfall saves Colony of dry ice test."

It was a pretty close call, though.

Young woman bites photographer

Al somni 15 war come again he Joed up and was sent to the Western Desert, Icaping the ranks in quick succession to Major General. As Chief Administration Officer he served General Mont-leved to be the world's must far- The "Voice of America," be ant gomery in Afrien

General reaching propaganda programmic. Intentions of salling right

A couple havé announced their Alexander in Italy,

When Monty

to have a new went to Germany station ulmed at silencing Rudlo

transmitting the coast of Australia, as first C.-in-C. he took with hlin Moscow. os deputy the organising genius who had sustained his association he has not once lost my. And so began the job which Tengler and, by the time that it has won him world renown ass completed in October, it will his temper with me]"

Robertson of Germany,

be the most powerful broad- He fought the first war

Now for the future. I belleve casting station In the world. All news contributions to be Hobartson did look like a rock in swing the Dus.. and that General Robertson's appoint- From Radio Tangier the Voice

M.C. In

In 1920, still a soldier, he ment as C.-in-C. Middle East Americ" programmer will chose a Scottish bride (they have Land Forces this month may be be carried to Northern Europe, one you and two daughters), and What is the story of this Bri. when his father died, seven years the last step towards his becoming the Balkans, the Near East and on the ica.

Chief of the Imperial General other important zonca where tish general, a retired major be-later, he retired from the Army, Staff.

Morcow's powerful radio voice fore World War II, who for over Settling in South Africa, he What a wonderful record it at present ousts. nearly all othor

managing director four years has guided British and, become

of would be the followed his programmes. adminis-father in-the highest offleo, the to some extent, Allled polley Dunlops. His flair Germany?

tration and easy grasp of technl-Army bestow,

To make sure that the "Volce of America" is powerful enough to overcome all possible Russian

If they can do this for bulldhigs, attempts at "Jamming", the why, maybe there's some hope for 100,000 and

50,000 walt transmitters broadcasting on hich

frequency. A

miles few away from the new station a special receiver plant now ing built by the N.S. Navy, will pick up programmes originating in the United States and re- broadcast them.

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AGGRESSION AT DAWN

The Russians are saying less and less about South Korean aggression on their poor victims in North Korea, and more and more about

in father's image

He was brought up to be a

in the Inge soldier

of his rugged father, Fleld-Marshal Sir William Robertson, Chief of the Imperial General Staff in World War 1. "Wully" Robertson rose soldier, feared for his gruff man- from the ranks to become a great ner, hard as granite, Idolised by the "Tommy" of 1914-18. He was not à man to pilot his son through easy channels.

Brian Robertson is intensely

for

Just a case of enlt love.

*

are

fine

Because Britain's

old homes

threatened with

should be relief of income tax and extinction, it is suggested there

surtax.

"My most exciting assignment”--No. 7: Tangier station will have four the middle class yet,

The child who

bullets ignored

By Hugo Kuranda

Can you remember 1934, Then came death. A big offer proud of his father. A close friend or is 16 years too long picture of a fighting man-sud- of his tells me of an Incident is time? Probably it did not, with no other

denly threw up his arms, and Germany. After a small

Linner

his

in

two

Courting disaster?'

"Any attempt by the Western powers ot wooing the Russinns

be- will fail."

Already two American stations operate Tangler but both these are privately owned and for commercial messages. act as international relay stations

ita

But surely they wouldn't object to talking-out?

1

to

"American crooner makes enough money in

10 years retire,"

A howling success.

Moslem women are forbidden to link arms with their husbands in public.

"illegalities". They or their dupes have chosen to make force the solvent of the Korean conflict, and force will therefore continue to be the dominant Tactor-only it won't be force on one side only this time. The invaders will in due course get more

At present "Radio Moscow is sound than the only too party at Robertson's house he. in any case, mean more to rattle of

successful with

But no doubt manage to keep a than they ever bargained for his elder daughter and two guests you than any other "normal" the pavement, crashed backwards in Spanish," can be heard clear-

tomygun as it hit broadcasts, One of them, "Volce strung hold on them in private. when they set out.

drifted into the card room to play year. Yet to us who watch-right on top of me, making mely in Madrid, Attractive con- Man fined for riding motor But for the moment the ar-bridge, the general's favourite ed international events it hit.

feel as though I myself had been eert programmes ure Inter-cycle at 85 m.p.h. gument of words is important, form of relaxation.

was the year where not only

sperscr with promises to the and so we repeat the main

On the wall hung

As his friends drugged him dom" they will enjoy when a a portrait, the sinister rumbling but also away I had a close-up vision of

Spanish workers of the "Free- points. The Kremlin is now full of character, of fighting shy of the basic issue nau of war, who gazeri severely the storm that was to break blood dripping from the corner

an obvious the first flashes of lighting of broken eyes, a drooping jaw and "Popular Democracy" is establish

ed in Spain! of North Korean aggression, upon the company from beneath over our heads. in 1939 be of the mouth," It believes in the famous Bir shaggy brows. Lie of the Totalitarians. It practices the big lie. But it knows that this hasn't even the plausibility that dis- tinguishes a more flight of the imagination which nobody

young

<

Summer in America

Summer in America,

and

That's at funeral pace,

Report ndys that Miami's leading beach beauty is to marry

a lifesaver.

She apparently wan worth wading for.

*

"Miss Smith was hostess at Juncheon. The afternoon spent playing bride,"

wag

Lucky the joint wasn't ralded.

*

an awful voice! I wonder who At the musical evening: "What

157"

Meanwhile, came all-too-clearly obvious.

another "Who's that funny old goczer?"

strong! police contingent had moved into asked un over-confident

It was the year of an Austrian the building opposite ant with nest, whom the general was find-socialist "revolution" of street-heavy machine guns began sys- rather tiresome.

Aighting and near-revolution in tematic strafing of Paris; of the Nazi party's blood station.

the radio "That," replied his host, pulling "purge" In Hitler's Germany; of himself to his full height," my King Alexander of Yugoslavia; car to a miracle air can ever of it-is having one of its big- the assassination in Marsellies of What happened next came as ice-cream-555 million gallons is really supposed to belleve father."

and the Nazi murder in Vienna hope to see in my life. As the from a lie, which the credu-

He has a reputation for being of Austria's 5tt. 2in. "pocket battle spared to its climax there gest successes since the war.

"Slie, happens to be my wife." lous at least are expected to austere

Dollfuss, But Chancellor" and very format.

anti-Nazi appeared suddenly,

"Oh, I'm awfully sorry. out of the; There are now more than 200 swallow. There is no physi- in his own home he is just the and anti-socialist dictator of the blue, a flaxen-haired boy, six or favours on the market and soine that's so bad, but that terrible course, It isn't really her voice seven years old, in the very of the Ice-cream "creations" are stuif she has to sing. Wonder opposite: any one has enjoyed its

middle of the empty street. A so gigantle and complicated that who wrote that ghastly song?” informal hospitality will remem-

schoolbag was Iber the happy atmosphere,

shoulder.

the

In summer

country.

The announcer

slung over his they take over a quarter of an

hour to muke.

cal, material, or moral support for it. The Chinese in Pek-

One event on the day of his death, 25th July, will stand out ing disdained to hang their

in memory throughout my life. gowns on it. And since the A man of the highest principles it brought me face to face with

We could only guess that he Vanitia is still the most popular! only -value it had was

with a rigid code of personal con- one of those situations with fame out of one of the street's favour but in many enses the swept

when

diet, General Robertson spends, which according to the Holly private away

houses, though heaven"ie" a hardly recognisable. Lost no time doodling. Up at 6 am, wood version of a foreign corres- knows who let him out of the under United Nations decided for a ride, then breakfast, which pondent our professional life is locked door. He proceeded. lel- and chocolate, it is usually melted welter of nuts, cherries that aggression had been. in the early days was combined filed.

surely as boys do who are not in to nothing more than a "cream" committed, and by North with daily German lessons from

a hurry to get back to lessons, by the time the customer reaches At p.m. on that overcast op- apparently. oblivious of Korea, there really wasn't an instructor, then work until 7

pressive day, the vast city of mortal danger to himself.

the it. much point in repeating them.

Vienna sweltered in a heat wave. lie. So we now have the

"Lover's Delight", one of the We didn't dare call him for favourlie attractions among “tecn- In my office I turned on the wire- a game of tennis fantastic position in which the might be fitted in before dinner. less to laten to the midday news, fear he might stop right in the agere consists of an ice-con United Nations is accused of Invariably bridge rounded off the government of Dr. Dollfuss has take my eyes off the child, though topped with a variety of fruit began: "The greatest danger zone, I couldn't a half scooped out pineapple day. illegality and the United

resigned, Dr. Rintelen (a well- was detemined to close them syrups,

another known Nazi sympathiser and ad- the moment I saw him stagger. cream, chopped pine-apple and a

round His capacity for work amazes mirer of Hitler) has taken over." But that dreaded moment never liberal helping of whipped cream States of aggression against

of ice the peace!

everyone. General Brownjohn Then the broadcast broke off. eame. Through the More and more the argu-thinker-that-he-never fumbles Prime Minister's office. No reply un his way. It must have been unceasing Galvanised, I rang up the hall of bullets the boy continued

and nuts. ...If you want to be -really-romantic-and-extravagant ment in Korea itself will be mentally, and can get through a from the exchange. I rang the my nerves, but during the last you can have a real rose or gar- taken up by the guns. Mean- prodigious amount of work. broadcasting headquarters with moments before he reached the leaves. The cost is a mere 7/**

denia pinned to the pineapple while let us be clear in our

equally little success.

Then corner that meant safety I could minds on these main points:

Koes On Vienna's Scotland Yard where I have sworn I clearly saw the with the Germans-but in con- I was lucky. "In public he is formal- always had a personal friend. This time chlid's

Another item is guardian angel holding foot-high glass and includes four served in a; "A lot of terrible him by the hand... things have ha"

he told Just after 2 p.m. the Aring

scoops of ice-cream, soda and a me cautiously.

disguised from the studio began to falter pin of whipped cream. Finally, as police have entered the broad- and gradually died away altoge felper," "Joe Sent Me" and "A "Boilermaker and apart from forced the announcer to make the of calm before our group receiv-Gleaming Nut Sundae", casting studio and at pistel point ther. There was an uneasy period Moron's Delight" there is the fake statement as a signal for ed a signal from the C.O, direct-

The issue in Koren did not begin when the Security Council met. It began when the North Koreans, with guns, tanks, infantrymen, and all the paraphernalia of war all held in readiness, were given the signal and fell upon the light border guards of the socalled South Korean Army without warning and in such force that they were soon in Seoul almost without reslá tance:

tells me that he is such

General Brownjohn

a clear

peace

in

preserve world future. This, in turn, justified the calling of an emergency meeting of the Security Coun cil

Hail of bullets

was 24 years old and full of

Dying Chancellor

This

she

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Beneral Nazi uprising in the ing operations from the building actually lights up with real flames country. We are just about to across the street: "Advance into and soda-fountain attendants der clear the station out."

the radio station." Though it red fire helmets and blow whis The resolutions of the Coun-.

might have meant death to all ties as they serve it. Undoubtedly cil, passed on June 25 and 27,

and everyone if the Nazis were an American "creation." only pretending to be finished, were perfectly valid. The

and were waiting inside for an absence of the Soviet Union I asked my friend to take me other showdown, the Assault constituted abstention with along. After a moment's hesita- group unhesitatingly attacked, out veto. "Moscow has accept risk," he warned me. "Await us

tion he agreed: “At your own The main door quickly gave way. So, far from the Southed the legality of many de-al..." He named a street corner! Korean army being the ag- cistons under practically the carby. gressors, they have proved same circumstances. The the spirit of adventure, yet my themscives

We outside held on extremely absence of a permanent mem-heart throbbed violently as in an

bur breath until the relieving cry came from feeble force and have practi- ber does not invalidate a re-armoured lorry the 12 of us, my one of the upper floor windows: cally vanished into thin air. solution and it is clear from inspector friend, 10 tommy-gun- "O.K. We've got 'em."

steel-helmeted armed, The Advisory Group respon- the Charter that it was never assault troopers"

police As climbed up the staircase Before You Paint Your Wooden Surfaces, and myself of the radio station six of our sible for their training were intended that the activities of tore through the heart of the shocktroopers came down, carry-

apply fooled completely, and are the Council should be imped-city.

ing between them three badly understandably bitter about ed by the absence of a mem- terstrasse (Vienna's Oxford Street) youtha.

As we swung from the Kaern- wounded

Nazin, half-grown it. A veil seems to have been ber.

whono blood-stained into the narrow Johannesgasse, clothes and indescribable expres- drawn over, most of these The issues raised about where the broadcasting studio sion gave a hint of physical and | vanished

warriors who legalities are in fact mere was, I expected the driver to pull mental agony. In the corridors wouldn't fight, and we will do quibbles in face of the real had passed the heavy police cor- nine dead. Of the three survivors, up for me to get out, once we and rooms I counted another the same. But this sort of issue whether aggression don thrown round the whole one died on the way to prisonin lesson has somehow got to be was again to be tolerated as arca.

dur armoured lorry. The two re- thought out, searchingly, it

But the lorry raced right to maining at Mukden, Was

were executed within the front of the building, to be the following 24 hours. honestly, and fearlessly. For Abyssinia, and in Czecho greeted by a half of rifle bullets That was the beginning of the this is the second time, and slovakia. Finally, there is no from above-the Nazis were well aboritve Narl uprising in Austria, with the South Korean ex- legal ground for disputing the armed and determined to resist 25th July, 1934. At that' same perience on top of the shat Chinesa Nationalist delegate's Take cover,"

desperately.

time Chancellor Dollfuss Jay. the inspector bleeding slowly to death, on the tering lesson of mass defection presence, on the Council, shouted and I found myself hud- floor of his offico in the famous. in China, it really is necessary whatever may be said about it died against the wall of the Ballhaus; at that same time there to go to school and learn the on the grounds of realism or vullding the police were to clear began a three days' civil

war reason why,

-fairly safe at this angle as long throughout the politics; and the United States as we didn't move.

country which cost the lives of hundreds of The Security Council acted was justifled both by the The police, however, had not, Austriatis. In support of the South Charter and by ordinary prin- come lust to "wait and see. That same evening 'I attended, Koreans only after it was ciples of International law in They returned the fire though it as reporter, in the gloomy "Old established that this was a starting action in aid of Southe yard or so to aim at the first trial,

Geant stepping out into the open Balley" of Vienna the summary under martial law, by a Case of utterly unprovoked Korea between the Council's and second-floor windows from military court, of the murderers aggression by the Northern two resolutions.

which the Natis were attacking, of Dr. Delfuss, two former Invaders. To have condoned

One police officer groaned as a N.C.Os of the Austrian army. As The issue of the légalitics is bullet hit his shoulder, two others, the clock struck midnight, this aggression would have in fact an evasionan evasions they attempted to dash for the major-general presiding

gpot struct at the whole basis of of the fact of North Korean doarby main entrance of the "the court: pronounced the death the United Nations-created aggression launched at dawn though it appeared to be, were they were hanged. But all that building, locked and bolted sentence on both. At 8 a.m. sharp, out of a vast world conflict to on Sunday, Juno 25,

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